Liv Strömquist

In the organizer's words:

THE ORACLE SPEAKS
Bestselling author and comic artist Liv Strömquist is coming to Berlin to read from her new graphic novel DAS ORAKEL SPRICHT on November 21 on the Buchbox stage at the Colosseum. The evening will be hosted by Gesa Ufer (rbb radioeins "Die Literaturagenten") and the German excerpts from her new book will be read by actress Nina Weniger. The conversation will be in English, the reading in German.

We all agree: Liv Strömquist is a phenomenon! Her feminist non-fiction comics regularly top the sales charts and are part of the canon of young feminist literature alongside books by authors such as Margarete Stokowski and Laurie Penny. Liv Strömquist's social criticism is based on her extensive research and her ability to work out new connections and thus present supposedly well-known facts in a new light. Coupled with a justified anger, a good dose of humor and expressive drawings.

In autumn 2024, Berlin-based avant-verlag will publish her seventh graphic novel, DAS ORAKEL SPRICHT, in which the sharp-tongued comic artist explores the trending topic of self-optimization. We live in a society that is increasingly obsessed with optimizing our well-being. But so far we still don't have an answer to the question of why we should even spend as much time as possible running around on this globe! In seven familiar, bitingly ironic chapters, she takes a close look at "influencers" throughout human history and examines who, where, when and how successfully life has been hacked. A mischievously philosophical slap in the face for the rampant self-optimization mania, as only Liv Strömquist can put it on paper.